Clinical and Counseling Psychologists in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$72,068
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$17,822
19.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$79,328
Wyoming costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Wyoming — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$89,890
Kept after tax
$72,068
Worth in national money
$79,328
State rank
31
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Wyoming sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $89,890, ranking 31 of 48 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Wyoming. It ranks 70 out of 433 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $89,890 you keep $72,068 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $79,328 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $102,760, since top earners drag the number up.
- Wyoming occupies the middle band for clinical and counseling psychologists: a median of $89,890, ranking 31 of 48. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Within Wyoming, clinical and counseling psychologists ranks 70 of 433 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Retained pay in Wyoming is $72,068 after the full tax stack, from $89,890. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $79,328 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $102,760 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Clinical and Counseling Psychologists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $64,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $89,890 |
| Top tenth earn over | $169,270 |
| This salary | $89,890 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Wyoming | $72,068 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $72,068 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,165 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $89,890 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$7,134 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of clinical and counseling psychologists in Wyoming earn under $89,890 and half over. The published range runs $64,200 at the tenth percentile to $169,270 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $72,068 take-home in Wyoming comes from $89,890. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 70 of 433.
- Two cautions on $79,328, the adjusted value of that $89,890 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Wyoming. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 70 of 433 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for clinical and counseling psychologists in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $64,200 to $169,270; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $72,068, from $89,890, assumes a single Wyoming filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 70 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 31 of 48 for it.
- This $79,328 adjusted figure, worked from $89,890, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 70 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 70 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $102,760, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $64,200 and the top tenth $169,270 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Wyoming sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $79,328 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $72,068 of this wage reaches your account, because Wyoming takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Wyoming is $102,760. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($64,200) and the ninetieth ($169,270) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Wyoming's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $79,328 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Wyoming levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $72,068 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.